Here is a new video I've just made entitled "Vassilissa the Beautiful: A Russian Folk-Tale for Us Today."
Growing up, I loved the Russian Folk-Tales (or Fairy Tales, as my book of Russian Folk-Tales called them).
Today, I would like to read the story of Vassilissa (sometimes spelled Vasilisa or Vasilissa) and add some commentary on the ancient wisdom preserved in this tale.
You can find an older version of this same story beginning on page 109 of this collection of Russian Folk-Tales published in 1915 and reprinted in 1916.
The point of December Solstice has now passed -- and now we enter the momentous "Three-Day Pause" before the Sun's journey back towards the north is really appreciable, and during which all the world seems to hang in the balance, awaiting the great rebirth of the annual cycle.
If you have not yet gone back to re-read my earlier post entitled "The Three-Day Pause," the next few days might be an opportune time to do so.
In that post from 2016, I wrote in part:
[. . .] there is a kind of "hang time" at each of the solstices, as the sun is "reversing its course" from proceeding "downwards" (lower in the sky, and further and further south in its rising and setting points) to proceeding "upwards" (higher in the sky, and further and further north in its rising and setting points).It is a kind of "pregnant pause" -- full of anticipation -- when the sun's azimuthal rising direction barely changes at all (as opposed to the equinoxes, when the direction to the sun's rising point on the horizon is changing by a full degree every couple of days [. . .]
But the December solstice yields a harvest as bountiful as that of the equinox and the horizon. It shows soul at the nadir of its dip into matter, and all its implications bear immediately and weightily upon the human situation. [. . .] At equinoxes light and dark are equal in quantity and sovereignty. But at the solstice the two powers are stabilized for the period, albeit in unequal relation. [. . .] Heraclitus adds a most pertinent observation: "The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension, like that of the bow and the lyre." Stability is gained only by the mutual annulment of two opposite forces. The planets swing in fixed orbits because of the exact counterbalance of centrifugal and centripetal energies.
The significance of the solstice (the word meaning "sun standing still") lies in the fact that for the time both light and darkness stand still in relation to each other. The basic feature is motionlessness. Neither is losing or gaining. They are stabilized. [. . .] So the Christ was born in a stable. 475 - 477.
These days of "standing still" anticipate the moment of midnight after the third day of pause, when the Sun is at its metaphorical "lowest point" -- because at midnight, the Sun can be seen to be completely entombed and obscured by the entire bulk of our Earth, which is entirely between our point on the globe (wherever we are) and our solar star.
It is at that point -- midnight on the night of the third day in the Three-Day Pause -- at which the Sun is esoterically figured to begin its motion back towards the "upper half" of the year. It is at this moment, in some cultures, that the oldest daughter in the family places the effigy of the Christ Child in the manger scene: at midnight on December 24.
This point esoterically marks the return or arrival of Self -- Self who is so often hidden and suppressed due to alienation, but to whom we all have access.
And thus this Three-Day Pause is an opportune interval for us to pursue that appearance and return of Self from whom we become so easily estranged, and to resolve to enjoy that presence of Self more and more during the year ahead!
We are rapidly approaching the moment of December Solstice for the year 2021!
Earth will reach that specific relationship with the Sun when our southern pole is pointed "most directly" towards the Sun about eight hours from now (as this is being published), at 7:58 in the morning on 21 December (Pacific Time), which is 10:58 in the morning on 21 December (Eastern Time in North America), which is which is 1558 Greenwich Time on 21 December.
The four great stations of the two solstices and two equinoxes frame the annual cycle of our Earth's relationship to our Sun -- and they also form the structural frame of the system of celestial metaphor for the world's ancient myths and sacred stories, including the stories in the Bible but also the myths and sacred stories of cultures around the globe.
The December Solstice holds particular significance within this great esoteric framework, because it was associated with the "second birth" -- the spiritual birth -- and the re-awakening to Higher Self, from whom we so easily become estranged and alienated during the life in this world.
Above is a short excerpt from a much longer and more detailed conversation on this very subject, a conversation which took place between myself and Kesenya of Guiding Star Astrology on December 4th of this year.
This excerpt contains some discussion of the importance of the December Solstice, when the sun's path reaches its lowest point, from the perspective of an observer in the Northern Hemisphere -- as well as some discussion about why the birth of figures representative of Higher Self in myth are sometimes associated with the point of midnight, three days after the day of December Solstice.
Here is the link to the short excerpt above, and here is the link to the entire conversation with Kesenya from earlier this month.
Here is a link to an earlier blog post entitled "The Three-Day Pause," which I published in 2016 and which is pertinent to the subjects discussed in both the shorter and longer video selections above.
The theme of recovery of and reconnection with Self runs through the world's ancient myths -- and is closely associated with this very specific point of the December Solstice in the annual cycle.
I sincerely hope that this December Solstice of 2021 will be a joyous and a meaningful one for you, and thank you for your interest in the work I am doing exploring these ancient treasures given to us for our blessing today -- and every day.
An Ash I know standing It is called Yggdrasil
A high tree sprinkled with shining drops
From there come the dews which in the dales fall
It stands ever green above the Well of Urd (or "Above the Well of Weird")
images: Wikimedia Commons (top image, bottom image).
Is Yggdrasil an Ash, or a Yew?
The debate continues to this day, but I am quite sure that the mighty World Tree is found in the Invisible Realm and is seen in the celestial realm, rather than the terrestrial.
Above are two descriptions of Yggdrasil from the Poetic Edda, one from the Voluspa and one from the Grimnismal.
Images: Wikimedia Commons (top image, center image, bottom image).
I am very excited to announce the launch of The Undying Stars Academy: systematic and comprehensive online courses teaching step-by-step the ancient world-wide system of Star Myth Astrotheology!
The first two courses are intended as "foundational" courses to lay the groundwork for later courses which will dive into specific mythologies from around the world (such as an upcoming course which offers a celestial tour of the Bible, and future courses on the myths of ancient Greece and on the Norse myths and on myths and sacred stories from other cultures on our Earth).
These two foundational courses give a framework which will help you get the most out of all the other courses to follow -- and these two courses are:
Celestial Mechanics and the Myths
and
I hope you will enjoy these courses if you choose to take them, and that you will find all positive things inside!
Warm thank-you goes out to my friends (who are also amazing researchers and experts in their own respective fields, and profoundly creative and interesting thinkers) Scott Onstott and Geoff Fitzpatrick of the Sacred Geometry Academy for inviting me to have a conversation with them on the Geometer's Compass Podcast.
Welcome to any new visitors checking out this site after hearing about it through Geoff and Scott!
Above is the video of our discussion, which was recorded on 06 December 2021. The full webpage for this episode of Geometer's Compass can be found here.
In this episode, we range over a variety of fascinating subjects, and Scott and Geoff respond in ways which provide new insights and perspectives on the myths and the stars and their meaning for our lives right now.
Scott Onstott is (among many other accomplishments) the creator of the Secrets in Plain Sight series of videos, which you can find linked on the full webpage to our conversation, linked above, and which has literally many millions of views and contains information and analysis which is almost incredible and unbelievable, but which is also undeniable and completely verifiable!
Geoff Fitzpatrick is (among many other gifts and talents) a teacher of Holotropic Breathwork and a maker of Mandalas, and leads others to make Mandalas as part of powerful shared creative experiences.
You can see more details about Scott and Geoff and the many amazing learning opportunities which they have to offer at this "About the Founders" page at the Sacred Geometry Academy website.
I very much hope that you will enjoy this conversation, and that you will explore more of the work Scott and Geoff are doing with their project!
Please drop them a note to thank them for all the time and energy that goes into what they are bringing to the world, and share this conversation with anyone for whom it might be positive and uplifting in some way.
Welcome to any new visitors coming here for the first time after seeing the latest video from Kesenya at Guiding Star Astrology -- and welcome back to returning friends if this is already your second visit (or more)!
Above is the video of my most-recent conversation with Kesenya, recorded yesterday which was 04 December in California (although already 05 December in Australia). Here is a link to the video for ease of reference.
This conversation has a special announcement towards the very end that you won't want to miss!
But do also please watch the rest of our conversation, which explores the Solstices, ancient Winter Solstice observations including Saturnalia, and the entire framework of the ancient system of celestial metaphor used by the myths and sacred stories from cultures on every inhabited continent and island of our Earth!
If you have not already seen it, you may want to go back and watch my previous visit with Kesenya, from September of this year: here is the link to the previous blog post about it and here is the link to the video from September 2021.
I very much hope you will enjoy our conversation and that something you find there will be a blessing to you in some way.
Thank you again to Esoteric Thoughts for having me over for a conversation about myths and stars and their meaning for our lives.
This is "Part Two" of our conversation, in which we are discussing the well-known episode found in Genesis chapter 9, of Noah and his sons after the Flood, in which Noah plants a vineyard and makes wine, resulting in drunkenness and embarrassment.
Here is the link to the Esoteric Thoughts channel, and here is the link to the above video about Noah's drunkenness.
Here for convenience is the link to my blog post about the first part of this interview on Esoteric Thoughts, which contains a link to the video of "Part One" (and here is a link to that Part One video for ease of reference as well).
This discussion contains evidence which argues that the story of Noah's drunkenness and nakedness, and the subsequent actions of his three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, is a celestial story and one that is built upon a foundation of metaphor involving specific constellations which we can still see in the night sky. The conversation was recorded on 16 October 2021.
I hope you will find something in this video which will be positive to you in some way: please share as appropriate and please give Esoteric Thoughts some encouraging feedback for all the hard work which goes into the production of the Esoteric Thoughts channel in distributing this type of information to the world.
Big Texas-sized "Thank-you" goes out to Brandon Thomas of the Expanding Reality Podcast for a fantastic conversation about stars, myths, ancient wisdom, the "Orpheus" myth-pattern world-wide, the crossing of the Red Sea, some important lessons for us from the myth of Perseus and Medusa, and a host of other related topics and fascinating tangents that I hope you will enjoy very much! I certainly did.
Here is the link to the above video of our conversation for ease of reference.
This interview was recorded on 13 November 2021.
I know you will enjoy Brandon's insights and personality and approach to podcasting -- please give him some positive feedback on his hard work, and share as appropriate!
You can also find the file at Apple Podcasts using this link (and provide Expanding Reality with a positive rating while you are there) and on Spotify using this link.
Thank you for watching and I hope that something in this video will be a blessing to you in some way!
A big equator-crossing "Thank-you" to the editors of New Dawn Magazine for including two of my articles in their most-recent Special Issue!
You can find the complete table of contents for this issue (Volume 15, Number 6) listed here.
You can purchase this issue from the website at the link above -- I hope you will enjoy it if you do! I myself have the physical print edition and it is quite nostalgic to actually sit down with no screen and flip through a glossy magazine!
Cheers!
This video consists of a guided tour through one of the most dramatic parts of the heavens, now rising into view in the month of December.
It explains some of the "landmarks" I use to identify the various constellations and other celestial features in this section of the sky.
In the video, we walk through the constellations of Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, Canis Major, Canis Minor, Perseus, Andromeda, Cassiopeia and Pegasus. We also touch upon the Hyades and the Pleiades.
I hope you will have an opportunity to go outside and see them in person, if at all possible! Thank you for watching.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here's a new video I just made entitled "Cornucopias against Malthus."
Wishing you a warm gathering and abundant good times together with friends and family and loved ones!
Fifty-eight years ago today, on 22 November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas.
The evidence regarding that murder of the President has been actively suppressed by a coordinated media effort since that time, and much of it remains sealed for "national security reasons" even to this day, fifty-eight years later.
If you have never done so -- or even if you have -- take 45 minutes today to listen to this interview between well-known media personality Johnny Carson and New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, which took place on 31 January 1968, a few months after Jim Garrison's bombshell long-form interview appeared in Playboy Magazine in October of 1967 (also linked below).
Here is the embedded player of that interview -- you will have to listen to it since no video of this historic conversation (strangely enough) can be found. But it is quite accessible even without video and you will get a very good understanding of the personalities of the two men, Carson and Garrison, from the audio alone:
When you finish listening to the Johnny Carson "interview" then read the Playboy interview, which is much longer and more in-depth (and far less hostile) than Carson's attempts to discredit Jim Garrison.
Here is the link to the Playboy interview with Jim Garrison, published in October 1967.
If the efforts by Johnny Carson to discredit Jim Garrison are not transparent enough in revealing the desperation of the media (and those who control the media in this country) to conceal the truth of the murder of the President from the American people, you may also want to go back and review the evidence uncovered by Jim DiEugenio in his book Destiny Betrayed regarding the death threats made to one Fred Leemans to lie about Jim Garrison (and say that Garrison was bribing witnesses in order to build a fraudulent case) during an NBC television special which aired in June of 1967.
Leemans later (in 1969) recanted those statements defaming Garrison and explained that he (Leemans) had received threats including threats of physical harm to his family as pressure to make those statements about Garrison.
In the Playboy interview, Jim Garrison argues that "there are powerful forces in Washington who find it imperative to conceal from the American public the truth about the assassination."
He goes on to warn us -- speaking in 1967, remember -- that: "we in America are in great danger of slowly evolving into a proto-fascist state."
He also declares that: "In a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society."
Garrison was a World War II veteran who had fought the Nazis in Europe.
Jim Garrison concludes his interview with Johnny Carson by turning directly to the American people and saying "I'm trying to tell the people of America that the honor of this country is at stake -- and if we don't do something about this fraud, we will not survive. And there is no way to survive if we don't bring out the truth about how our President was killed four years ago."
In about twenty-four hours from publication of this post the Full Moon will be entering the Umbra or full shadow of the Earth for a near-total Lunar Eclipse.
Here's a video giving a one-minute orientation to the night sky as it will appear during the Lunar Eclipse, which should be visible across North America.
This video shows the sky (using the excellent Stellarium free planetarium app) as it will look on the night of 18 November through early morning 19 November, from the perspective of a viewer in my part of California (about 35 North latitude). Viewers on the East Coast should add three hours to these times, but will still be able to observe the complete eclipse during the hours before sunrise (given a clear view of the sky with no clouds).
For other parts of the world, consult your local timetables to see if the Moon will be above the horizon during the hours of the Lunar Eclipse.
Here is an excellent writeup from Sky & Telescope discussing more details of this particular Lunar Eclipse.
I hope you will have the opportunity to observe this event in person, if you are located in a part of the Earth which will be opposite the Moon during its passage through our planet's shadow.
Special thank-you to Esoteric Thoughts, for inviting me over for a conversation on his Esoteric Thoughts podcast and channel. Here is a link to the above video for ease of reference.
If you are visiting for the first time after seeing our discussion on Esoteric's channel, welcome! You can find many additional resources at my primary website, Star Myths of the World, at star myth world dot com. There, you will find an archive containing many earlier interviews and podcasts, many of them also containing visual presentations, as well as links to dozens of other videos I have made.
You can also find sample content from all of my books, as well as blog posts going back to the year 2011. The blog is fully searchable, so you can look for specific terms that may interest you.
At the bottom of each page in the website, you can also find a "Resources" link which will take you to a page containing links to primary sources such as translations of ancient texts, as well as to the most helpful secondary sources such as the important contributions of pioneers in previous generations including Robert Taylor ( 1784 - 1844) and Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880 - 1963).
I hope you will visit frequently and I hope that what you find will be a blessing to you in some way.
If you are a regular visitor and are learning about Esoteric's channel for the first time, please give him some positive feedback for all his hard work and the high-quality content he has been posting on his site: I know he will appreciate it!
This interview was recorded on Saturday, October 16, 2021. This is the first part of the interview: the second part will follow later.
Thank you for watching, and all best wishes in your own research and journey.
Two years ago, on 09 November 2019, I published a post with a video discussing my visit to the incredible cast replicas of Maya stelae which are displayed in the Museum of Man in San Diego (since renamed the "Museum of Us").
On that visit, I encountered a display which discusses artwork found on a lintel at the Maya site of Bonampak, dated to about AD 750 (or, if you prefer, 750 CE) -- artwork which the museum display describes as evidence that the Maya must have been far more warlike and less peace-loving than historians had previously believed, but that conclusion is based on the failure by conventional academia to recognize the overwhelming evidence which shows that the scene from that Maya lintel is celestial in nature, based on the same ancient world-wide system of celestial metaphor which underlies the sacred stories and sacred artwork of cultures around the globe.
I decided to make a new and very short video highlighting the evidence of the celestial foundations of this particular scene. The video is only two minutes long and has no sound -- just some images and text.
We have reached that incredibly significant station of the year upon which Hallowe'en or "All Hallow's Even" (Evening) is observed and celebrated!
Here for your Hallowe'en enjoyment is a brand-new video entitled "Exploring Goblin Market."
Have you ever read Christina Rossetti's poem, "Goblin Market"? If not, please find yourself a copy (in print or on the web) and settle down in a comfortable place, perhaps with a nice cup of your favorite beverage, and give this delicious but disturbing poem a long, leisurely read!
Then, when you've savored it at least once, check out my new video for some of my perspectives on this poem and its possible message for us.
Be sure to share with a friend who might find this subject to be uplifting . . . and Happy Hallowe'en!
Big thank-you to Walter Cruttenden and Donna Nairi for inviting me onto their Cosmic Influence series of interviews, for a discussion of stars, myths, heavenly cycles, the Great Year, and the incredible Pylos Combat Agate, which only came to light in 2017 (found in a 3,500-year-old tomb unearthed in 2015, near Pylos on the western edge of the Peloponnese in Greece) and which features an astonishing battle scene which can be definitively shown to be based on important constellations for its foundation (a fact that the world of academia has yet to acknowledge).
Welcome! to any new visitors learning about my work for the first time as a result of Walter and Donna's interview -- and of course welcome back! to returning friends, who have perhaps seen some of my previous writing and videos about this incredible ancient treasure carved into the hard surface of a gemstone.
Above is the video of our conversation, which you can also find by following this link. This interview was recorded on 27 July 2021.
As many readers will know, Walter Cruttenden is the author of Lost Star of Myth and Time and the founder of the Binary Research Institute, exploring the evidence that our own sun and solar system are part of a binary system (in common with well over 80% of the stars we know of at this time and which we see in the heavens every night). Although the latest incarnation of Cosmic Influence may have a new YouTube channel, the show has been going for many years and has in the past featured interviews with Graham Hancock among other researchers (link to that interview) including Laird Scranton, Gary Evans, and dozens and dozens more.
Walter has also hosted the Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge which has been going for well over a decade and at which I have been fortunate to have presented some of my research on the world's ancient Star Myths: here is a link to my presentation at the most-recent such Conference, which took place in October of 2019.
I hope you will enjoy this conversation between Walter, Donna and myself regarding the mysterious Pylos Agate! I prepared some visuals for our discussion, although you have to wait for them to kick in as we get to the part of the discussion that focuses on the agate itself.
If you want to read more of what I have written in the past about this amazing treasure, you can search the blog for the word "Pylos," and also check out the video I made in 2018 entitled "The Pylos Combat Agate among the Infinite Realms," when the discovery of this artifact was still relatively new to the world (video also embedded below).
image: Wikimedia commons (link).
The earth-sun relationship is about to reach the point we call the September equinox, which is the fall equinox for the northern hemisphere (and the spring equinox for the southern). This year, the September equinox occurs at 12:21 pm Pacific or 3:21 pm Eastern time in North America, which is 7:21 pm UTC or 1921, on 22 September.
As we go through the cycle of the year, the relationship of hours of daylight to hours of darkness changes, as a function of the tilt of our planet's axis of rotation relative to the earth-sun plane: when the North Pole is pointed more towards the sun, then the northern hemisphere will have more of its daily rotation in view of the sun, and thus the percentage of the day's rotation during which the sun is above the horizon will be greater than the percentage of the rotation during which the sun is below the horizon, and thus days will be longer than nights.
When the North Pole is pointed away from the sun, then the situation will be reversed, and hours of darkness will be greater than hours of daylight during each of our daily rotations on our axis.
The two equinoxes represent the two "crossing points" at which we cross from the half of the year in which days are longer to the half of the year in which nights are longer, or vice versa (from the half with nights longer back to the half with days longer).
Sticklers for detail will point out that days are still just a bit longer than nights on the actual equinox days, because of some technicalities related to the size of the sun-disc itself and other factors related to atmospheric bending of light around the curvature of the earth, which we need not go into in this particular post -- the actual moment of equinox in either direction (from "days-longer" to "nights-longer," or from "nights-longer" back to "days-longer") is actually determined by the moment that the sun crosses over the celestial equator twice each year, once on its way north (towards the days-longer half for the northern hemisphere) and once more on its way south (towards the nights-longer half for the northern hemisphere).
These two crossing-point days, as well as the two turning-point days at which the sun reaches its highest arc (the summer solstice, at which point we have the longest day of the year) and its lowest arc (the winter solstice, at which point we have the shortest day of the year), form the primary "framework" of the annual cycle: four important milestones which are encoded in ancient myth worldwide, indicated by ancient stone monuments worldwide, and imbued with esoteric significance by which they take on meaning which relates to our struggle in this life, symbolizing aspects of our own plunge into incarnation and the subsequent loss of connection with our own Self -- and the process of recovering that connection.
Alvin Boyd Kuhn describes his interpretation of the esoteric significance of these four great stations of the annual cycle (the two solstices and the two equinoxes), in a passage I have cited in numerous previous blog posts, such as this one.
In addition to the significance that Kuhn argues in that passage, relating to the plunge of the divine spark of spirit into the confusing tangle of material incarnation, I would argue that the ancient myths can be shown to also use this same cycle for illustrating the related "burial" of and alienation from Self -- and for showing us the path towards recovery of Self and repair of that state of alienation.
Below is a diagram I've made (and shown on several podcasts) which uses a diagram of the annual cycle in the form of a zodiac wheel (this zodiac diagram was published in 1618 in a book by Johann Daniel Mylius), to which I have added the names of the zodiac signs, a horizontal line connecting the two points of equinox (one on the "way down" to winter solstice, and one on the "way back up" to summer solstice), and a vertical line connecting the two solstices (winter at the bottom and summer at the top), along with labels for the half of the year in which days are longer than nights for the northern hemisphere (the top half of the cycle) and for the half in which days are shorter (the bottom half):
The point of September equinox, which is the fall equinox for the northern hemisphere, was imbued with significance in the ancient system that relates to our plunge into the relative "darkness" of incarnation (as explained by Alvin Boyd Kuhn in the quotation linked above) but also -- according to my analysis and my contention -- with significance that relates to our plunge into alienation from Self, and our need to recover Self.
The ancient myths given to all the different cultures of the world thus serve as a map for our journey of recovery and healing -- but this knowledge has for the most part been deliberately obscured and even deliberately suppressed, by those who prefer to increase our alienation from who we are rather than to help us to recover that relationship with Self.
The world's ancient wisdom, preserved in the myths, has been deliberately and systematically attacked and destroyed (witness for example the burning of the priceless and irreplaceable Maya codexes by the invading Europeans upon coming to the Americas during the fifteenth and sixteenth and subsequent centuries).
Ancient sites around the world were often aligned to the great stations of the year, including the solstices and equinoxes and also the "cross-quarter days" which fall in between those four major stations of the solstices and equinoxes.
Above is an image of the famous Intihuatana at Macchu Picchu in the continent of South America -- a stone whose name means "the hitching-post of the sun" or the "tying-up place of the sun" or "sun-tying-up-place."
It is carved out of the bedrock itself, and situated such that the sun passes directly over it on the dates of equinox, such that it casts no shadow at mid-day on those two days (as the sun reaches its highest point on its daily journey).
There were other such Intihuatana stones in the Americas, but the invading Spanish priests of literalist Christianity systematically destroyed every Intihuatana they could find. The only reason that the sun's hitching-post at Macchu Picchu survived is that Macchu Picchu is so high up and so remote that the sacred site itself was not found by the invaders.
In addition to all these undeniable historical examples of the suppression and destruction of received cultural tradition related to the myths and to the ancient wisdom which used the heavenly cycles as a framework for conveying esoteric knowledge, we can also point to paradigms which are deliberately taught as though absolutely settled and beyond question, but which themselves appear in some cases to be dubious and thus to be very much worth questioning and examining.
For example, there are extremely ancient sites around the world which contain undeniable alignments to the sun's position on solstices or equinoxes -- sites which retain these alignments even today, many thousands of years later -- and yet we are told that the tectonic plates which carry our continents are "drifting" by about 2.5 cm (or one inch) per year in different directions relative to one another. If this is so, then how is it that sites such as Stonehenge (built between 3,500 and 5,000 years ago), and Mnajdra (thought to have been built over 5,100 years ago), and Newgrange (thought to have been constructed around 5,200 years ago) -- all of which contain precise alignments to sunrises and sunsets on the equinoxes and solstices -- have been able to retain those alignments over a period in which they should have drifted by more than 5,100 inches (over 425 feet) on the moving continental plates?
Below is a model of the distinctive ancient structures at Mnajdra on Malta, with red lines drawn upon the model itself to indicate the alignments of the site to the beams of the sun on the days of the solstices and the two equinoxes: these alignments remain to this day, and yet the structures themselves are extremely ancient, probably more than 5,100 years old!
image: Wikimedia commons (link).
Is it possible that the continents drifted, but that they did so in the distant past -- perhaps due to an enormous cataclysm of some sort -- and that they are not drifting by anything near one inch per year (or even one-half an inch per year, which would still mean Mnajdra would have drifted by well over 200 feet (without losing its precise alignments!)?
What would be the point of obscuring the evidence for some enormous catastrophe in our ancient past?
Another curious fact worthy of considering on the equinoxes (and solstices as well, for that matter) is the conventional explanation for the solstices and equinoxes themselves. In the modified version of the Copernican model which we are all taught (and which is also conventionally held to be "beyond question"), it is posited that our earth is orbiting around the sun in such a manner that the North Pole remains oriented in the same direction during the entire cycle of the year (as does the South Pole), during which time the earth is hurtling in a near-circle around our solar star.
This assertion is in itself somewhat curious: what principles of physics can be invoked to explain why a planet orbiting at a high rate of speed would hurtle around its orbit in such a way that its northern pole stays pointed in the same direction the entire time?
Below is a typical diagram depicting the conventional model, in which earth's axial pole remains fixed even as the planet itself makes its complete orbit:
image: Wikimedia commons (link).
Look at the diagram and imagine our earth -- a planet of not inconsiderable mass -- hurtling around the sun once per year while the alignment of the axis (and the direction to which the north and south poles is pointing) never changes in any appreciable manner.
Is it possible that this model is incorrect, and that someone is nevertheless forcing it upon everyone (and ridiculing anyone who dares to question it)?
Researcher Simon Shack has published an entire book filled with evidence which points to grave problems with the traditional solar system model, in which he argues that the earth does not in fact orbit the sun but rather that our sun is part of a binary pair, and that the sun is performing an orbital dance with that binary partner and in doing so that the sun goes around earth as part of its binary dance.
Admittedly, his proposed model may be at odds with some aspects of traditional Newtonian physics, but it would seem that an orbit such as that proposed for earth in the conventional model, in which the North Pole remains "locked" and pointing in one direction even as the entire planet speeds around the sun in a full circle, also has some points of contradiction with Newtonian physics.
If our sun is actually in a binary relationship, either in the manner proposed by Simon Shack or perhaps in a manner proposed by other researchers, why would anyone want to obscure that information and insist upon the conventional model we are taught?
These are important questions to ponder -- and particularly appropriate subjects to occupy some portion of our reflection on the day of equinox.
If the ancient wisdom uses the heavenly cycles as part of an esoteric system relating to the topic of alienation from our Self, and recovery of Self, then we should at least consider the possibility that certain people might want to keep the majority of men and women from that knowledge, in order to keep them alienated and divided against themselves.
But the myths still offer us their ancient message, one in which the equinoxes and solstices play a critical role. On this September equinox for the year 2021, I hope that you will have the opportunity to reflect on their positive and profound teachings and incorporate their message into your life.
Huge thank-you to Kesenya Moore for inviting me over to her popular Guiding Star Astrology channel for a wonderful conversation regarding stars, myths, and their impact on our lives today!
Welcome to anyone visiting for the first time as a result of seeing that chat -- and of course welcome back to returning friends!
Above is the video of our interview, which you can also find by following this link.
This conversation was recorded on 09 September 2021.
If you don't believe that the positions of the earth relative to the sun and moon as well as the positions of the planets could possibly impact any aspect of our day-to-day life here on this planet, think about the fact that the shape of a building can have a very significant affect on how we feel (a soaring classical or neo-classical academic building imparting a very different vibration than a cramped classroom in a low-ceilinged modern shoebox school such as the type that have been inflicted on public-school students in California for the past fifty or so years). I wrote a little about this subject long ago in this blog post.
If the relative height of the ceiling and the proportions of a building can have such an impact, imagine the impact that the positioning of enormous planets such as Jupiter and Saturn might have! And, while thinking about these things, you might also consider the fact that the taste and experience you get when drinking a glass of wine or beer or fine whiskey is significantly impacted by the shape and material of the vessel out of which you choose to drink it (as discussed in this early blog post).
And then there is this post entitled "The gods are real," which explores an important study from the early 1950s based upon evidence collected by the RCA company, indicating that the arrangement of other planets in our solar system appears to have a direct impact on the propagation of long-distance radio waves traveling from North America to Europe or from Europe to North America.
I very much appreciated Kesenya's insights and perceptive questions during this interview and I think you will find that our interaction brings out some discussion that you may not have heard in any previous interviews or videos.
I very much hope you will enjoy our conversation, and if so please send Kesenya some positive feedback and consider following her work!
I want to remind everyone how we got here, and what America's interests are in Afghanistan. We went to Afghanistan almost twenty years ago, with clear goals: get those who attacked us on September 11, 2001, and make sure Al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again.
All of these assassinations [listed in the preceding sentences: John F. Kennedy in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968] have been conclusively shown by subsequent researchers to have been treacherously initiated, organized, executed, and then covered up by the very establishment forces that felt threatened by these charismatic leaders.These were trauma-inducing events, carried out in public in a trauma-inducing manner. The evidence that murders such as the assassination of President Kennedy were not committed b a "lone nut" the way the official story insists that they were committed is so overwhelming that this evidence simply cannot be ignored -- which means that our higher self, aware of so much more than what the conscious mind allows itself to perceive, cannot fail to realize that the official story is a lie.The reason that the egoic mind of so many men and women simply refuses to accept the truth -- the truth that we already know deep down, "in our gut" as we say, is that the truth in this instance is so jarring to the artificial reality that the "defense mechanism" of the egoic mind constructs for us that the egoic mind simply refuses to allow itself to see what is staring us right in the face.The same can be said for the unsolved crimes committed on September 11, 2001, in which not two but three massive steel-framed skyscrapers collapsed into their own footprints, demolition-style, supposedly (according to the official narrative) due to fires. The evidence, which should be plain to everyone who lived through that trauma-inducing day in history, overwhelmingly demonstrates that the official story is a bald-faced lie. The implications, however, are so threatening to the rules by which we order our world that most of us suppress and refuse to see the evidence which is staring us in the face -- resulting in internal division, alienation, and a pervasive sense of background angst.That the official story is a lie can be explained in four simple words: "Building 7, freefall speed."Building 7, of course, refers to World Trade Center 7, which was a 47-story steel-frame building which was not struck by any airplanes and which suddenly collapsed into its own footprint, at a speed indistinguishable from freefall speed, on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, well after the collapse of World Trade Center Buildings 1 and 2 (the North and South Towers, also known as the Twin Towers).Supposedly this collapse of Building 7 at freefall speed into its own footprint was due to fires started from debris which fell from the other towers. That explanation is so ludicrous that it simply cannot be believed, and I would argue that our deeper self (buried by our egoic mind in most cases) already knows that it is false. The reason our egoic mind refuses to allow itself to see that the official narrative cannot possibly be true is that the implications of that fact -- that the official story is a bald-faced lie -- obliterate the facade of what we believe to be true about the world around us.There are many other aspects of the events of that day which demonstrate, almost as blatantly as the collapse of Building 7 at freefall speed, that the official story about the crimes perpetrated on September 11 is a criminal lie.These include, but are not limited to, the complete failure of the military to scramble fighter-jets to intercept the other airplanes which continued to fly around for over an hour even after the Twin Towers had been hit, and the failure of any air defense weapons to stop (or even attempt to stop) a jet from hitting the Pentagon (if indeed a jet did hit the Pentagon), as well as the fact that numerous military drills involving aircraft were taking place on that same day by "astonishing coincidence," and also the fact that the crime scene of the collapsed towers of the World Trade Center was not investigated but instead was deliberately and rapidly destroyed and the steel carted away in short order, never to be subjected to rigorous forensic analysis.All of these trauma-inducing events fall into the same broad pattern -- the same pattern we have been examining. The central feature of this pattern is the seizure of more and more of the gifts of heaven and of nature for the benefit of a privileged few at the expense of the many, coupled with the willingness to impose trauma as one of the tools available to enable that seizure and to prevent it from being corrected by men and women who would normally see what is going on and take action to apprehend and bring to justice those responsible, and to protect what belongs to the people from being monopolized by a privileged minority. 331 -333
Now, more on the latest building collapse in New York -- you might have heard a few moments ago, I was talking about the Salomon Brothers building collapsing, and indeed it has. Apparently that's only a few hundred yards away from where the World Trade Center towers were, and it seems that this was not the result of a new attack, it was because the building had been weakened, by this morning's attacks.
Special thank-you to Andre Mytty for inviting me over to his new podcast, Ascension of the Chessmen, for a conversation about some of the implications of the evidence which shows that the ancient myths of cultures all around the world share a common foundation of celestial metaphor.
Welcome to any new visitors finding this site for the first time as a result of hearing this show -- and of course welcome back to returning friends!
This conversation was recorded on 07 September, 2021.
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